TICRA Tools cover feed horns, orthomode transducers, polarisers, filters, bends, twists and waveguide junctions, supporting both rotationally symmetric and fully 3D geometries. Components can be built from predefined libraries, through importing CAD files or constructed from scratch using integrated CAD editors.

Feed components interact electromagnetically with the antenna and surrounding structures, so standalone analysis rarely captures installed behaviour. Coupling, reflections and platform effects all shift performance once the feed becomes part of a larger system.

Evaluating the complete chain, rather than the component alone, gives a more accurate picture.

Yes. Antenna systems with particularly very large components or space-based payloads, are impractical or prohibitively expensive to measure across every frequency and configuration. TICRA Tools has been validated extensively against measured data, so simulation can substitute for measurement where testing is not feasible.

Component-level analysis evaluates a feed or waveguide part on its own, typically through scattering parameters or radiation patterns. System-level analysis extends this to the complete antenna, accounting for interactions with radiating systems and feed chains, near by scatters such as sub reflectors or rotationally symmetric radiating systems such as hat feed antennas. 

TICRA Tools supports both, allowing engineers to move between the two as a design matures. 

Yes. CHAMP 3D integrates with GRASP, QUPES and ESTEAM, so feed and waveguide models can feed directly into reflector, array and installation analysis without rebuilding the geometry